<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“A Geezer's Gripings” </b>by Rick W. Cotton</div><div><br></div><div>I'm getting older, nature deems.</div><div>I'm coming apart at the seams.</div><div>The things that never hurt before</div><div>Now multiply, make more and more.</div><div><br></div><div>My hair is thinning, or could it be</div><div>Just relocating here on me?</div><div>Down my back and out my ears</div><div>'Tis true! Oh horrid, horrid years!</div><div><br></div><div>My teeth were once all mine, oh, yes!</div><div>And stayed in place, in permanence!</div><div>And now, like stars, they're out at night</div><div>(And why do my pants fit oh so tight?)</div><div><br></div><div>My hawk-like vision has relented.</div><div>Glasses this has circumvented.</div><div>I can still see, more or less, </div><div>But down at the DMV.....I guess!</div><div><br></div><div>There are advantages, I'm told</div><div>To all us geezers getting old.</div><div>Like discount coffee, oh that's great!</div><div>(If we can get out of bed by eight.)</div><div><br></div><div>But still we soldier bravely on</div><div>And moan and groan with each new dawn.</div><div>For it's a good thing that we see</div><div>The grass from the side that still is green.</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Trump”</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>